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peer-reviewed ; Essentially, the tale was trivial. A scoundrel named Siobharan stole a cockerel, which had been bought at a fair by Father Aengus. A local court quickly denounced the theft and a warrant for his arrest was promptly issued. It was a local drama, a conflict within a community that was replicated across the countryside and across rural societies everywhere. But the poet and scribe Aogan 6 Rathaille (1675-1729) found something emblematic, drawing from its mundane universality a tense political specificity that twisted me tale away from the ordinary and placed it into the mythic world of the symbolic. The poem he composed, 'Ar Choileach a Goideadh 6 Shagart Maith' (A Good Priest's Stolen Cock) metamorphosed the event from the banalities oflocal spite into a profound parable of cultural, religious and political conflict. Blending the English and the Irish language, the opening stanza revealed 6 Rathaille's intent. The simple inclusion of the word 'whereas', as well as demanding the reader's attention, placed me case in a court where Anglophonic law encountered Irish-speaking communities: ; PUBLISHED ; peer reviewed

peer-reviewed ; The Interpretation Act 2005 consolidates previous legislation and contains some new provisions inspired by a Law Reform Commission report. These may bring about a subtle but significant change in the methods of statutory interpretation. However, the Act is silent on the permissibility of extrinsic aids in interpretation, particularly parliamentary debates, traditionally prohibited by the exclusionary rule. This should indicate that the prohibition continues but an examination of the debates on the 2005 Act shows that the Oireachtas does not have a clear understanding of practice in the courts.